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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Heart
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